All Aboard

Free website

sources for

historical maps of

Ireland

Jane Nolan, Maps & GIS Librarian, UCD Library Jane.nolan@ucd.ie Wednesday 5th April 2017

What is All Aboard 2017?

An initiative being co-run by The National Forum for the

Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher

Education and Ireland’s higher education institutions.

All Aboard 2017 is a week-long (3-7 April 2017) series of

national and regional public events designed to build

confidence in Ireland’s digital skills for learning.

libguides.ucd.ie/findingmaps

Collection of website links in a guide created by UCD Library

The links take you directly to

historical maps which are available online

Links to historical maps are arranged in three different categories : • Dublin

• Counties of Republic of Ireland – Carlow to Wicklow

• Maps of the whole island of Ireland (this can include

atlases or an entire series where you can see individual counties)

http://libguides.ucd.ie/findingmaps/mapshistDublin

The maps are listed chronologically in date order starting with the earliest Click on any map title which is in blue – this opens an image of the map which you can view. Some maps are available online in more than one place, links to both are given – e.g. the 1764 Bellin map

Bibliothèque Nationale de France

David Rumsey Map Collection

1764 Jacques Bellin map

David Rumsey Map Collection

This historical map collection has over 75,000 maps and images online. For anyone interested in maps the breadth and variety here is well worth browsing through : the collection includes rare 16th through 21st century maps of America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Pacific and celestial maps.

“ Georeferencing allows you to overlay historic maps on modern maps or other historic maps. The overlaid maps reveal changes over time and enable map analysis and discovery.”

David Rumsey Map Collection

Some maps include the View in Georeferencer option – this means that the historic map has been “georeferenced”, i.e. using computer software tools, the historic map has been aligned to its real world position on earth, so that it can be viewed on this type of website.

Drag the red button across the slider to change the opacity

http://www.davidrumsey.com/

On the home page type the location you are searching for into this box at top of the page and click on Go

To see larger version of a map left click on the image shown

On the image of the whole map you can

click + on the

slider to zoom in on the map

Easiest way to take a copy is to click on Print Screen which is on the keyboard, open an application such as Paint, click on the Paste icon in Paint and save the image as a jpeg to print

Clicking on Print gives you a page showing the map together with its bibliographic details … (rather than a print of just the map as you might expect)

• Joint project between Ordnance Survey Ireland and UCD Library.

• OSi provided scanned images of almost 1370 maps for

about 76 Irish towns and cities.

• These 5 and 10 foot town plan maps date from the latter half of the 19th century.

• These maps are now on the UCD Digital Library with no restrictions on access to view the maps. They can be freely used for any educational, research, non-commercial purpose.

OSI Historical Maps

OSI 5 and 10 feet 19th century maps

Athy 10ft to 1 mile 1872 Some towns are available in colour but most are black & white

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OSI 5 and 10 feet 19th century maps

• The large scale at which they were surveyed means that details such as the ground floor interior plans of public buildings from churches and banks to hospitals and railway terminals can be viewed on the maps.

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OSI 5 and 10 feet 19th century maps

Useful information shown includes the parish, barony, townland, ward and municipal boundaries which are all clearly marked. With building types such as mills, foundries, dye works, barracks, billiard rooms, galleries, tea houses and bull rings shown, not only is architectural history visualised but clues to working and cultural life in the past are revealed.

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The Turkish Baths on Lincoln Place which opened in 1860 is one of the places referred to by Leopold Bloom in James Joyce’s Ulysses

Sheet 22, 5 foot to 1 mile, 1864

UCD DIGITAL LIBRARY

Go to www.ucd.ie/library and then choose UCD Digital Library OR direct access via http://digital.ucd.ie/

1. Select pull-down menu on Collections tab

3. From Refine Search options select Resource Type

2. Left click on Browse collections

4. To see the map collections select cartographic

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Scroll through the collections and left click to select one of interest by clicking on the blue hyperlink

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To find a map you can use the visual map locator – this is a map of the whole of Ireland where you can zoom into your place of interest and select the five foot or ten foot scale map published for that area

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• Zoom in with the + button on left hand side of screen

• Left click on the toggle button next to date range of interest

• The maps available are shown as coloured rectangles (as below)

Here’s another example of the map visualiser with the date range 1859 to 1870 selected In the bottom right corner you will see a legend – this shows the year each colour represents

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Left click on the coloured rectangle for the area of interest A pop-up will show you the date and map sheet number Left click on blue hyperlink view map image The whole sheet map will open

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Detail from Sheet 27,1847 map

To print or save: Left click on Resize / Crop Image The Help pages give the instructions for finding, saving, printing maps

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Left click on any edge or corner to shrink or stretch the JPEG and thus select the section you would like to print or save

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Preview

To get a good quality image - type 8000 (or higher number) into the box named Other Defaults in section 3 are fine Left click on Download this image

This opens a jpeg which you can save or print

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS & CITATIONS

If using an item from the UCD Digital Library you can find a Suggested credit, and details about Rights & Usage Conditions in the record for the item.

by Frank Cullen Published by the Royal Irish Academy, 2015

Dublin 1847: city of the Ordnance Survey

UCD DIGITAL LIBRARY

Scroll through the collections and left click to select one of interest by clicking on the blue hyperlink

These maps were published at a scale of 6 inches to 1 mile : useful for seeing the development of the city during this era – last 25 years of the 19th century.

Left click on this icon to download a jpeg of the entire map

Left click on this icon to select part of the map for printing / saving

Left click on fullscreen to see the entire map image As you zoom in the image becomes sharper – it can take a minute for this to happen This 1890 map shows the township boundaries – the townships were created for local government purposes and were dissolved in 1930

Boundary of the Pembroke Township

1756 John Rocque Dublin Map

http://libguides.ucd.ie/findingmaps/mapshistDublin

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Single click in each preview checkbox, then click on the magnifying glass

VIEWING THE JOHN ROCQUE 1756 MAP

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Zoom in to enlarge part of the map Click on Save Image – this will open as a png file OR Click on Print for an A4 print or to save as a pdf version

John Rocque 1756 – drawn at 200 feet to an inch (1:2400)

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Different building types are represented by stipple for residences, diagonal lines for warehouses, cross-hatching for

public buildings.

USING AND CITING THE MAP

There is no constraint on use of these maps provided they are used for educational, non-commercial purposes.

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Click on the icon to copy citation information. This is the bibliographic information which you can use to cite or refer to the map.

The printed map or JPEG you save will include a scale bar and the centre co-ordinate points of the map

by Colm Lennon and John Montague Published by the Royal Irish Academy, 2010

John Rocque's Dublin : a guide to the Georgian city

National Library of Ireland

• National Library of Ireland has a collection of approximately 150,000 maps. The collection is predominantly Irish.

• Many maps are available online - use the Advanced Search to find digitised maps:

http://catalogue.nli.ie/Search/Advanced

Enter a place name in the Search For box, scroll down to click on and choose Map from the Format options. Under Online Availability click the Digitised option. Finish by clicking on Find.

You can narrow your search in various ways, e.g. by date (the date slider above can be fiddly) so easier just to type the dates into these boxes and left click on Set:

To open the map left click on the thumbnail image.

When the map is open enlarge it by clicking on the + button

Almost 1700 maps are from the Longfield Map Collection. This was a Dublin surveying company.

http://www.nli.ie/en/site-usage-policy.aspx

For temporary, personal use take a copy by clicking on Print Screen which is on the keyboard, open an application such as Paint, click on the Paste icon in Paint and save the image as a jpeg or png.

To purchase a copy contact Repographic Services at: http://www.nli.ie/en/reprographic-services.aspx

Clicking on the title of the map opens the bibliographic record

Selected material from Irish public libraries, museums and archives on a wide range of topics. The material has been digitised (scanned, digitally photographed, recorded etc.) and set in a narrative context.

Copyright material loaded onto this site is available for the purposes of research and private study or criticism or review within the terms of individual licences for each page on this site. All users must acknowledge that the contents of this website will not be extracted or re-utilised for any competing or commercial purpose without the written consent of Libraries Development, LGMA and the copyright holder.

www.askaboutireland.ie/reading-room/digital-book-collection/digital-books-by-subject/geography-of-ireland/

These three digitised books in pdf format all contain maps. When opened you can click on these buttons next to the map images:

Fit to page Zoom in Zoom out

1837

1777

In this PDF document you can’t search by word, so need to look at the index to find a location and then the page number of that place. Bray is on page 140

Gives the page number to the adjoining map Some of the maps are hand coloured

1776

These examples of the county maps for Dublin & Mayo show each Barony individually coloured

Website sources for historical maps of Ireland Ask About Ireland

www.askaboutireland.ie/reading-room/digital-book-collection/digital-books-by-

subject/geography-of-ireland/ AskAboutIreland.ie and the Cultural Heritage Project is an initiative of public libraries together with local museums and archives in

the digitisation and online publication of the original, the unusual and the unique material from their local studies' collections to

create a national Internet resource for culture.

David Rumsey Map Collection

http://www.davidrumsey.com/ This historical map collection has over 75,000 maps and images online.

Harvard Geospatial Library

http://calvert.hul.harvard.edu:8080/opengeoportal/

John Rocque’s 1756 map of Dublin

http://calvert.hul.harvard.edu:8080/opengeoportal/openGeoPortalHome.jsp?BasicSea

rchTerm=ExternalLayerId:602

National Library of Ireland General information about the map collections: http://www.nli.ie/en/printed-maps-introduction.aspx To search for the digitised maps: http://catalogue.nli.ie/Search/Advanced The Longfield Map Collection: http://www.nli.ie/pdfs/mss%20lists/158_Longfield_Map_Collection.pdf

UCD Digital Library http://digital.ucd.ie/ Maps of Dublin Accompanying Thom’s Official Directory https://doi.org/10.7925/drs1.ucdlib_33000 Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSi) 19th Century Historical Maps http://dx.doi.org/10.7925/drs1.ucdlib_40377

Thank you!